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The symbol shows the location of the Londonderry (Northern Ireland) transmitter which serves 37,000 homes. The bright green areas shown where the signal from this transmitter is strong, dark green areas are poorer signals. Those parts shown in yellow may have interference on the same frequency from other masts.

Are there any planned engineering works or unexpected transmitter faults on the Londonderry (Northern Ireland) mast?

LONDONDERRY transmitter - AM: Reduced quality due to a fault from 30 Sep 11:09 until 30 Sep 20:19. Off the air due to essential engineering from 30 Sep 10:00 until 30 Sep 10:51. . BBC


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Which Freeview channels does the Londonderry transmitter broadcast?

If you have any kind of Freeview fault, follow this Freeview reset procedure first.

Digital television services are broadcast on a multiplexes (or Mux) where many stations occupy a single broadcast frequency, as shown below.

MuxH/VFrequencyHeightModeWatts
PSB1
BBCA
 V max
C29 (538.0MHz)286mDTG-2,000W
Channel icons
1 BBC One (SD) Northern Ireland, 2 BBC Two Northern Ireland, 9 BBC Four, 23 BBC Three, 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, plus 14 others

PSB2
D3+4
 V max
C31 (554.0MHz)286mDTG-2,000W
Channel icons
3 UTV (SD) (UTV), 4 Channel 4 (SD) NI ads, 5 Channel 5, 6 ITV 2, 10 ITV3, 13 E4, 14 Film4, 15 Channel 4 +1 NI ads, 18 More4, 26 ITV4, 28 ITVBe, 30 E4 +1, 35 UTV +1 (UTV), 71 That’s 60s,

PSB3
BBCB
 V max
C37 (602.0MHz)286mDTG-2,000W
Channel icons
46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD Northern Ireland, 102 BBC Two HD Northern Ireland, 103 UTV HD (UTV), 104 Channel 4 HD NI ads, 105 Channel 5 HD, 106 BBC Four HD, 107 BBC Three HD, 204 CBBC HD, 205 CBeebies HD, plus 1 others

H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)

Are you trying to watch these 44 Freeview channels?

the effected channels
the effected channels
the effected channels
the effected channels

The Londonderry (Northern Ireland) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: U&Yesterday, 4seven, 5Action, 5STAR, 5USA, Al Jazeera Eng, Al Jazeera English, Blaze, Blaze +1, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, DMAX, E4 Extra, YAAAS!, Film4 +1, Food Network, FRANCE 24 (in English), GREAT! action, GREAT! christmas, GREAT! movies, GREAT! romance mix, HGTV, HobbyMaker, ITV2 +1, ITV3 +1, ITV4 +1, ITVBe +1, Legend, PBS America, Quest +1, Quest Red, Really, Sky Mix, Sky News, Talking Pictures TV, That's 90s, That's TV 2, Together TV, TRUE CRIME, TRUE CRIME XTRA, U&Dave, U&Dave ja vu, U&Drama +1, U&W.

If you want to watch these channels, your aerial must point to one of the 80 Full service Freeview transmitters. For more information see the will there ever be more services on the Freeview Light transmitters? page.

Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Londonderry transmitter?

regional news image
BBC Newsline 0.6m homes 2.5%
from Belfast BT2 8HQ, 1,052km northeast (50°)
to BBC Northern Ireland region - 46 masts.
regional news image
UTV Live 0.6m homes 2.5%
from Belfast BT7 1EB, 1,052km northeast (50°)
to UTV region - 46 masts.

How will the Londonderry (Northern Ireland) transmission frequencies change over time?

1950s-80s1984-971997-981998-20122012-134 Sep 2019
VHFB E TW TW TB E TW T
C2BBCtvwaves
C29BBCA
C31C5wavesC5wavesD3+4
C37BBCB
C41ITVwavesITVwavesITVwavesD3+4
C44BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBCA
C47C4wavesC4wavesC4wavesBBCB
C51tv_offBBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1waves_local_local

tv_off Being removed from Freeview (for 5G use) after November 2020 / June 2022 - more
Table shows multiplexes names see this article;
green background for transmission frequencies
Notes: + and - denote 166kHz offset; aerial group are shown as A B C/D E K W T
waves denotes analogue; digital switchover was 10 Oct 12 and 24 Oct 12.

How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?

Analogue 5 10kW
Analogue 1-4(-4.9dB) 3.2kW
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB(-7dB) 2kW

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Limavady transmitter area

Oct 1959-May 2006Ulster Television
May 2006-Dec 2014UTV plc
Feb 1983-Dec 1992TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014ITV Daybreak•
• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only. Londonderry was not an original Channel 3 VHF 405-line mast: the historical information shown is the details of the company responsible for the transmitter when it began transmitting Channel 3.

Comments
Tuesday, 30 October 2012
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dburns
12:21 PM
Londonderry

will we get more channels in the near future or is that the lot from londonderry transmittor

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Dave Lindsay
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12:44 PM

dburns: No, read the previous postings (on earlier pages) which answers your question!

You "may" be able to receive the full service from Limavady, but you will need a different aerial installing for it "if" it is possible at your location.

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Thursday, 8 November 2012
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d.Gwilt
1:56 PM

when will the derry tx carry the full freeview package of channels

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Dave Lindsay
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2:00 PM

d.Gwilt: I think that you need to go to the opticians!

As stated above a number of times and in discussion with others the likely answer is NEVER.

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Patrick
5:46 PM
Londonderry

What aerial group do i need for the Derry mast please.Paddy

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Patrick
5:53 PM
Londonderry

If i buy a FULL HD TV,any make,will i get get all the saorview channels.Thanks,Paddy

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Michael
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9:07 PM

Patrick: Full HD indicates that it can display a full 1080p HD signal, not that it can pick up Freeview/Saorview.

You need to ensure it has Freeview HD built-in to the TV so that it can pick up all the available channels at your location. (MPEG4 for video AND audio will pick up Saorview but you might as well get Freeview HD to actually show and HD picture on your TV!).

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Wednesday, 28 August 2013
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joe
10:57 PM

Hi
not sure if I should be posting here. I live in Newtowncunningham in Co Donegal,about 10 miles from Derry.
Last year I bought 3 new Samsung Tvs (for living room, kitchen, bedroom) to be able to receive the uk and irish digital channels (Saorview & Freeview)
When I set them up they all tuned in the irish channels and the uk ones for both tv and radio.
However a few months ago I noticed that the tv in the living room does not get rte digital text but only the old style text. In an attempt to try to fix this I did a retune of the channels but it has picked up only the irish tv and radio channels (18) but lost the uk channels.
(the other 2 tvs still receive ok all the channels)

Is this due to some change with the freeview channels or I suspect that receptionfor tis particular tv for the uk channels is not 'strong' enough?

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Thursday, 29 August 2013
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R Bell
12:09 AM
Enniskillen

joe: I would suggest trying another retune to pick up the UK channels. If this doesn't work, you can do a manual retune. There should be a menu option. If you normally get "Freeview Light" which means you get no ITV3, ITV4 and Sky News (and quite a few others) then you will be picking up the Londonderry transmitter so search Ch 41 and Ch 44. If you get ITV3 etc then you may be picking up Limavady so check the channel numbers for it.

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Dave Lindsay
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3:49 PM

joe: Where were you receiving the Freeview channels from?

If it is/was Sheriff Moutain then be aware that it broadcasts vertically and only carries Public Service (PSB) channels.

Hollywell Hill, not far from Sheriff Mountain, is horizontally polarised, so even though both may be on roughly the same bearing, you may require two aerials or else suffer poor or intermittent reception of one of them.

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